91% of local business properties will be unlettable by 2030 due to the government's NetZero regulations. The Daily Telegraph, via Saville's estate agents, says that "the Government intends to ban commercial properties from being rented out unless they are assessed as having a minimum energy performance rating of C by 2027, and B three years later."

Savills estimates that the costs for this will be up to £90 billion. A retail analyst, Mark Faithfull, suggests many shops will then become 'stranded assets' with the costs to develop them too high to be worth the investment in doing so. 

Inevitably, these businesses will then become housing and the beneficiaries will be the out-of-town mega-corporations such as Tesco and Primark and the online sellers such as the dreaded Amazon. How this fits in with the parallel government desire for "15-minute cities" is questionable. People will no doubt be further nudged to buy online for their purchases.

As cash use is about 30% of UK purchases, this drive will increase the ability to track UK consumer spending. Meanwhile, the Bank Of England's development of a 'digital pound' continues.   

On the other end, producers themselves are being strangled by a government regulatory avalanche, particularly in farming. These are adding serious costs for smaller-scale businesses and giving a structural advantage to larger ones through economies of scale. This also places high barriers to entry for new, or innovative entrants to the market. 

Already due to the structural decline of the industry, 20% of retail outlets and 15% of shops are empty as online sales rocket to almost 30% of purchases. 

The Green Agenda pushed by 'global governance' entities is crushing the smaller-scale business owner and transferring their role to global multinationals. Whether this is intentional, will depend on whether you are a 'conspiracy theorist' or not.